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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2016
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eliot Lear, Wetzikon, CH;

Brian Weis, San Jose, CA (US);

Mordechai Alon, Or Yehuda, IL;

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/125 (2013.01); H04L 41/28 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/1541 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 61/2514 (2013.01); H04L 61/2582 (2013.01);
Abstract

Presented herein are techniques in which one or more network devices can use information provided by a special purpose network connected device to retrieve a usage profile (i.e., configuration file) associated with the special purpose network connected device. The retrieved usage profile, which includes/describes preselected (predetermined) usage descriptions associated with the special purpose network connected device, can then be used to configure one or more network devices. For example, the predetermined usage descriptions associated with the special purpose network connected device can be instantiated and enforced at a network device or the predetermined usage descriptions can be used for auditing the special purpose network connected device (e.g., monitoring of traffic within the network).


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